eagerness
Example Sentences
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"Eagerness, excitement, anxiousness, to give this organization and the Jones family everything they invested in," Prescott said.
From Fox News • Mar. 10, 2021
But a Fool hath an Eagerness, like a Monkey in a Glass Shop, to break every thing in the handling.
From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of
Eagerness in reading counts as much as it does in living.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley
Eagerness was in Mother's tone; hopefulness was in Mother's look, but the look vanished and left nothing but disappointment in her eyes.
From A Melody in Silver by Abbott, Keene
His breaking from his Friends with that Vehemency of Passion in an Eagerness of Desire to hear what his Father could say to him, is another Proof of his Filial Tenderness.
From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) by Anonymous
Vocabulary lists containing eagerness
A Single Shard
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The Suffix -ness, Part 1
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Greed
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